CBer FINED $10,000 for his "Export" Radio and Amp!

I may have responded with undue sarcasm, but I have read repeated empty threats that serve no purpose than to piss-off forum members. Let's be realistic, who really cares whether or not you do in fact have the capability to track down unlicensed truckers running on sacred bands. Are you REALLY going to do it? And what would you do if you found this guy. From my understanding, as related on these forums, the FCC has to catch you in the act of broadcasting. If an unlicensed driver is running on a 10 meter band in a professional manner, I just don't see the harm. If, as you say, someone is causing interference then I agree with you whole-heartedly; whether it be a HAM operator on a trucker channel, or a trucker on a HAM channel. But, when you start saying, "I'll track you down and turn you in!", you just alienate those that you are reaching out to, and no matter how valid a point you may have, it is lost. What's the saying? "You draw more bees to honey, than you do to vinegar."

 

I completely agree. That is the point that we all start to laugh and just try to piss you off. I mean...think about yourself at home. Some young kid gets his lic and after he gets his first car puts a CB in there. He starts running his mouth trying to start something and it pisses off the truckers. He may say something like " Where are you and I will come kick your teeth in!" or something like that. You would make fun of him just like we make fun of those running off at the mouth here.

As mentioned...ANYBODY... can take the tech test and pass it. Buy the book...take the test the next day. You don't have to know anything at all before you buy the book. I have a completely legal radio I talk on and people say all the time how they are going to turn me in. I just giggle. Then I turn the other one on hit the 10k slide and send code station identification. No reason other than to act a fool like everyone else. These are my toys and I have done everything possible to meet every requirement.

Now ask yourself this... if only 1% have done as I have done and are licensed to operate the equipment how will you know by looking on the outside of the truck? I have a steel whip on my pickup and only a barefoot Cobra 25 with talk back and echo. It sounds GREAT! Everybody things I am running a "box". I DO have a 100watt modulator for it but rarely eve use it. Whats the point? I can come home and swing the beams around and do whatever I want to do with nothing on drinking a beer.

So if you can't tell who is legit and who is not just by visual and not using some molecular laser radar guidance GPS tracking facilitation device that doesn't exist yet, how can you possibly be taken seriously? And even if you do scare one or two of the 0.13% of the truckers from this forum how will the rest know that you really made something happen? It is better just to say "that ain't nice or right" and keep the rest to yourself. It does nothing but make people look at you funny.

CB is OLD!!!!! technology. Still fantastic, reliable, and a lot of fun to use, but OLD! They are still making "illegal" radios and They are still allowing CB Shops to remain open. You would think by now if it were a really REALLY big deal a lot more would have been done about it.


BUT! I still agree. People who abuse it are a pain in the aspirin bottle. The rest of us are just playing with the toys we got with the money we bounced on our butts for. Some of us are even legal...imagine that... So give us a break....at least a little one from time to time.

 

You said a mouthful! Bottom line; it's all about fun. When you get into that "members only" crap you ain't hurting nobody but yourself. It's like you're a member of a club, and the club puts on some event. There's thousands of members enjoying themselves. But there's always the one who spots a non-member who snuck in, but, who is otherwise behaving him/herself. But, for the member, the day is ruined because all he can think about is "he's not a member," "he shouldn't be here," he just turns into Chicken Little, running around in circles, exclaiming "the sky's fallin' in, the sky's fallin' in." They need to forget all the Lone Ranger/Vigilante crap; lay back and enjoy life! It's just not that big a deal!

 

yea there is an idiot in tulsa to that i can hear all the way to muskogee always talkin about monkeys driving all the driver farm trucks and cases of bananas

some times i wish he would get the big ole door slamed in his face

 

that kind of power his engine will shut down or detonate due to a injector firing in the wrong position i have seen it happen a few times with over 150 watts ahahhahaha point blank with that power good luck somethings goin to happen with t he electronics on that truck

 

The driver I was referring to with the Stargun, in all probability, has an FCC license. He showed me an antenna that was really, really, long which could not be run on a moving truck. He had a name for it which I can't remember. He said it was for use in competitions. I've heard of competitions and I would think that in order to participate in something like that you'd also have to have a license. Lastly, he used his big radio when stationary. He was Jamaican, and spoke to his family in Jamaica, talked to people across the country, in Hawaii. I gotta believe he had a license. Nice guy. Very interesting and willing to take the time to give a rookie like me some insight.

 

Oh, yeah!!! You have never seen a diesel have it's firing order disrupted due to an electrical source. Injectors don't FIRE. The injector is nothing more than a spray nozzle that injects a fuel mist into the cylinder. Combustion comes from the heat caused when air, packed into the cylinder by a turbo/supercharger, reaches a temperature sufficient for ignition. There is no diesel that has an electrical source for detonation. The closest you'll come is on the older trucks that used glow plugs to warm the cylinder for easier starting. I don't care how big a linear is, it CANNOT disrupt the firing order.

 

1500w is only a regular Super Trucker radio with no upgrades!

 

#### the dreams these folks come up with. I doubt the guy had a license or he wouldn't be perticapting in these contest. If you have a license and you do stupid stuf like that and get caught there it goes all that work gone for nothing. If you have a license you stay as clost to legal as you can no matter where you are operating. I mean it would be easy for me to run my 1500 watt leagal amature radio on 27.185 channel 19 in the 11 meter band but why would i want to it would sound like the devil to you folks its not over modulated or echoing or none of that its crisp clear sound coming from a sideband that you have never understood fo to use or you would be there once you discover sideband you will never go back to AM and once you get away from AM you become a real radio operator instead of a mike holder.

 

Have you ever even bothered to check out a HAM forum. They have ARRL sanctioned contests in a variety of competitions; some for how may hidden transmitters they can find, other competitions are about the most stations raised in a given time; others have to do with satelites. Do you even know what the ARRL is? If you like, go to the San Francisco Amateur Radio Club, then do a search for "CONTEST". Get a CLUE!